Crowdsourcing Truth - The PIPE UP Network

Tar Sands Reporting Project

Tired of mainstream reporting that seems more focused on spectacle and fluff than on critical issues of our times?

Then you might like the Vancouver Observer's idea of crowdfunding the in-depth work needed to really cover the Tar Sands issues. Vancouver Observer reporters hope to go to the Tar Sands and along the pipeline routes to get the stories of the people involved. The Tar Sands workers, the First Nations, the people who live along the pipeline routes, industry, academics, activists...